Sentences with phrase «recent economic environment»

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A recent poll for the Asia Pacific Foundation found that a majority (51 percent) of respondents felt that the potential risks to the environment of transporting oil and gas to Asia outweigh the potential economic benefits.

The recent burst of volatility has been unnerving, but it is important to remember that the macro environment of synchronized economic growth and muted macro risks remains solid, although some are concerned about potential inflation and higher interest rates.

The recent bout of volatility in financial markets occurred in an environment of growing uncertainty about the global economic outlook and increasing geopolitical tensions.

But the tax environment in California has long been higher than many other states and the recent economic events have merely reinforced and escalated that reality for wealthy residents.

Growth of the Australian economy is being supported by a strong external environment at present and, if anything, global economic conditions have strengthened further in recent months.

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

As of last week, tax - exempt government bonds hit a four year high, with many investors believing that the recent tax reform and an expected rising interest environment will push bond pricing even higher, offering a very attractive economic option for yield starved investors — many of which in recent years have had to increase risk capital allocations to generate reasonable outcomes.

Coastal has continued to grow despite one of the toughest economic environments in recent memory.

* The CIOT believes that a key reason for the increase in unreimbursed claims by employees is that employers have tightened their belts in recent years in response to a more difficult economic environment.

New York is not a low - tax state, and its economic success is because of strengths that overcome a challenging tax environment, with recent tax commission reports recommending many of the changes incorporated in the bill.

According to a recent report published by TransUnion, one of the major credit bureaus in the United States, personal loan borrowing continues to thrive in the post-recession economic environment.

The company encountered a number of external and internal issues that adversely affected the process, including current market conditions and economic circumstances, difficult retail and credit environments, the company's recent operating performance and cost structure, uncertainty surrounding the status of the possible redemption of the Series A Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock held by GE, and the early stage of the company's cable and satellite distribution negotiations.

According to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), a number of key indicators point to the fact that the economic environment is becoming a lot more friendly to small business sales.

In a recent study on Low and Medium Density Development, Landscape Architects Wes Michaels and Ebru Ozer found that, «Mid-sized resorts offer more opportunities to balance the demands of resort tourism with the environment and the cultural needs of the local population... The environmental savings are also beneficial for the economic vitality of the individual resorts as well as the long term sustainability of the entire region in relationship to tourism.»

The built environment lurks in a number of sculptural installations and videos as emblematic of our recent economic crash and stand - ins for human culture, as other artists address the natural environment and our increasingly complex relationship to it.

Artists have often employed food within their creative process and practices, from Marinetti's Manifesto Of Futurist Cookery to Michael Rakowitz's Enemy Kitchen, with more recent enquiries investigating themes such as globalisation, food and the environment, as well as responding to other, socio - economic issues.

Speaking to The Earth Times after the recent round of talks at Cancun, Artur Runge - Metzger, head of the European Commission's environment unit and the EC's chief negotiator on climate change, noted that while the economic downturn in developed countries had resulted in lower emissions, other countries such as China and India have remained unaffected and had seen their emissions continue to rise.

We hardly noticed A somewhat recent, but hardly noticed paper (open link) has appeared in Energy and Environment 18 (5) 2007 emitted by William Nierneberg's accomplice in killing off early, and less expensive action on climate change, Gary Yohe, Eli's old friend Richard Tol who thought Nicholas Stern should be stood up against the wall and striped of his economic stripes,

As Australia's Ambassador for the Environment, Peter Woolcott, pointed out at a recent public forum at ANU Crawford School, views will diverge about «what Australia can realistically achieve given its unique national circumstances and characteristics, including its resource endowment, and economic and population growth».

He has authored or co-authored over 50 books, the most recent of which is World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse, and has received 24 honorary degrees and numerous awards, including the 1987 United Nations Environment Prize, a MacArthur Foundation «genius award,» and the 1994 Blue Planet Prize.

A recent discussion paper from the bank stated: «Fundamental changes in the environment could affect economic and financial stability and the safety and soundness of financial firms, with clear potential implications for central banks.»

As the result of the recent changing economic environment and increasingly competitive markets in which most law firms practice, Managing Partners and members of Management and Compensation Committees in the more successful law firms have identified and re-defined those objective and subjective criteria that have been especially designed to motivate partners to attract new clients, proliferate work from existing clients, perform those fee producing and non-fee producing activities that are necessary to retain existing clients and recognize those partners who have been given responsibility for managing the performance of clients and client work that other members of the firm have originated.

For example, new career fields such as a social media manager may present great opportunities given recent social and technological advancements while one might want to avoid a legal career based on a conveyancing practice due to the current economic and competitive environment in this field.

With new commercial real estate investment and construction supporting around 3.2 million American jobs and contributing $ 450 billion to the U.S. GDP in 2015, according to a recent NAIOP report, concern about a possible recession and its impact on a vulnerable economic environment — particularly over the next year — is understandable.